Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Sneak Peek

We're not quite ready to pull the masking, but we're close. I have decided we should put on a second coat of green paint to get better coverage. These plaster walls are not smooth, so it's a bit of a challenge to get the wall thoroughly covered. Once it's had several hours to dry, I'll be back up there to apply a second coat.

Yesterday, I put up a coat of primer. Since I hadn't masked the walls before staining the wood, there was quite a bit of stain slopped onto them. I was hoping the primer would help cover the dark splotches and it did.

Now that we're so close, I'm thinking about whether I should go ahead and apply a stencil in the frieze this summer, before we move our furniture back from storage. Though it's hard to pick one since there are so many wonderful choices!

1 comment:

The green is lovely and works well with the reddish tone of the stained wood. Looks great! I vote for doing the stencil now while you can get at it :-) Have you seen the stencils at The Stencil Library? I love their stencils! They have wonderful Arts & Crafts ones, but the Art Nouveau are my favorites :-) Here's their site ... http://www.stencil-library.co.uk/stencilcatalogue.html